Comments on: I-90 Delays

By: John

John — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 06:21:51 +0000

So how bad has it been, folks traveling across 520 and 90? Total chaos? Or has it been better than anticipated? Seems to me every time WSDOT forecasts the end of the world as we know it, things aren’t nearly as bad as they scared people into believing they would be – but some facts to back up that assertion would be nice :)

By: dave m

dave m — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:40:41 +0000

I am pretty concerned…I would love to ride the bus every day but need to get across 520 at 5:15-5:30am and there are no buses eastbound that early. Furthermore, I cannot ride my bicycle across 520 which is a huge bone of contention for me with the local infrastructure. I know, people will say that I can ride the bus going from the tunnel over I-90 but getting up at 3am to catch a bus is not my idea of fun.

Unfortunately I am stuck with driving. Even getting off work at 2:30 (in the car around 2:50-3pm) the traffic I’m sure will be hell. I would suggest Metro offer at least one early bus (5:15 or 5:20 perhaps) going to the bellevue transit center (not overlake, that only serves Microsofties and not anybody else).

Guess that’s the life of a construction worker. When I worked in Belltown I was able to ride my bicycle to work every day (and did). I miss that, even though it required getting up at 4am. I just wish that local transit organizations would consider having the buses that are traveling to Bellevue in the early morning be able to pick up folks like me; even just across the bridge would be appreciated and dropping off at yarrow pt. station.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:47:50 +0000

It would have been interesting to see a shuttle bus service set up just for the closure period, shuttling pedestrians to and from the ends of the bridge.

The weather is good, the bridge has nice views, and if WSDOT’s convestion estimates are right, walking across the bridge will be faster than driving.

The I-90 bicycle trail will remain open during construction — they’ve built temporary bypass bridges around the expansion joints. I’ll add a photo to the STB flickr pool.

By: VeloBusDriver

VeloBusDriver — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:28:38 +0000

http://transit.metrokc.gov/up/holiday-service.html

I normally drive the 233 so I guess I’m off that day. It should be a nice day for a bike ride…

By: Sir Learnsalot

Sir Learnsalot — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:25:44 +0000

My cave is decorated with Persian rugs.

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:01:29 +0000

Yep. So Drive, or bicycle, or Tele-commute. Traffic will be really light as many people have the day off.

By: sunday

sunday — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:53:54 +0000

Is the Sunday schedule thing on the metro website? If that’s true my 233 will not even run and I have to go to work…

By: alexjonlin

alexjonlin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:28:24 +0000

Or Sunday non-schedule, as in the case of Kitsap Transit…